When we think of the conquest of the West, the image of these beautiful desertic landscape in their shades of red and orange comes in mind, filled with cowboys speaking roughly and not hesitating to confront the looters and the Indians. However, the conquest of the West was a lot more complex than that!

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A few books to read:

A People History of the United States, Howard Zinn, NewYork, HarperCollins, 1980
François Durpaire, Histoire des ÉtatsUnis, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, « Que saisje ? », 2013
Claude Fohlen, Les Indiens d’Amérique du Nord, Paris, PUF,1995
Richard White, It's your misfortune and none of my own : A new history of the American West, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991
Spencer C. Tucker, The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 16071890 : A Political, Social, and Military History, Santa Barbara, ABCCLIO, 2011
Howard Lamar, The Reader's encyclopedia of the American West, New York, Crowell, 1977

Interesting links (most of them in French):

http://www.clio.fr/BIBLIOTHEQUE/la_co...

Fort Alamo and some intells on the Mexico war: https://www.herodote.net/6_mars_1836...

A great page on the Native Americans: http://www.ukus.fr/indiens.htm

http://www.histoirealacarte.com/carte...

http://drc.nationalcowboymuseum.org/e...

http://www.histoirealacarte.com/carte...

Un très bel article wikipédia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

and some more cool links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conqu%C...